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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Mary Wollstonecraft"”.
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Virtue: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
… is a screenplay for an imagined "biopic" of Mary Wollstonecraft. Wollstonecraft has already been the subject of many biographies, each presenting their authors' own understanding of her life. Here, I present my view, guided -- to varying and sometimes conflicting degrees -- by my …
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Individuation in Text and Life: a Jungian Interpretation of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Matilda
… characters of the novella as archetypal images. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote Matilda in the wake of her children's deaths and in response to her resulting feelings of isolation from her husband and spiritual estrangement for her father. During such periods of emotional unbalance, images …
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Models of Claim, Resistance, and Activism in the Novels of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, and Frances Burney
… usage and construction of the term “claim” in Mary Wollstonecraft’s The Wrongs of Woman, Mary Hays’s Memoirs of Emma Courtney, and Francis Burney’s The Wanderer. By tracking the frequency of “claim” and its collocates through corpora, this thesis explicates each author’s distinct construction …
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Three Women, Two Spheres, and A Contract: A Comparative Study of Mary Astell and Mary Wollstonecraft Through the Lens of Carole Pateman's "The Sexual Contract"
<p>This project examines the writings of Mary Astell (1666-1731) and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) regarding women in light of ideas articulated by Carole Pateman (1940- ) in her book, <em>The Sexual Contract</em> (1988). In her work, Pateman critiques the prescriptions for the management of …
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<em>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman:</em> A Reflection of the Tension Between Conformity and Rebellion in the Life and Times of Mary Wollstonecraft
… A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) by Mary Wollstonecraft and how it reflects the tension between conformity and rebellion that is an inherent component in the life of its author and therefore is a fundamental element of this treatise. In this paper I discuss how the personal struggles …
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Freedom, Society, And The Individual In Early Modern Women's Thought
… Cavendish, Sophie de Grouchy, Gabrielle Suchon, Mary Wollstonecraft, and other women of the early modern period in Europe. From these disparate sources—Cavendish’s vitalist metaphysics, Suchon’s practical ethics, Wollstonecraft’s polemical aesthetics—a unifying political concern can be drawn: one …
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Feminism by proxy: Jane Austen’s critique of patriarchal society in Pride and Prejudice and Emma
… other feminist thinkers of the time, such as Mary Wollstonecraft, and works to set the stage for what would later become first-wave feminism.</p>
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Upstairs-Downstairs: The Life of Women in England's Country Homes During the Regency Era, 1775-1837
… who were servants or women who had servants. Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Nelly Weeton, and Agnes Porter are featured. Similarities and differences among these women are examined using diaries, letters, and hooks written by them as well as about them. England went through dramatic changes …
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The New Feminine Rhetoric: Wollstonecraft, Austen, and the Forms of Romantic-Era Feminism
… his Rights of Man. From there, I suggest that Mary Wollstonecraft, writing in the wake of the Burke-Paine debate and drawing upon the rhetorical philosophy of George Campbell, was able to establish a distinctive feminist rhetoric in her Vindication of the Rights of Woman. This feminist rhetoric …
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Poverty, Social Isolation, Uselessness, and Loneliness: The Fears and Anxieties of 19th-Century British Governesses
… statements made by former governesses (including Mary Wollstonecraft), and are likewise reinforced through census reports and common thought of the period. The rigid structure of British society during the period forced many middle class women without male support into employment as governesses, …
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Exploring The Influence of Burkean Aesthetics on Late Eighteenth-Century British Representations of India and North America
… writers, but as authors (much like Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Thomas Paine) who were actively involved in the politics of their time and whose novels serve as vehicles for dialogue on both domestic and foreign policy. The novels of Hamilton, Gibbes, Owenson, Winkfield, Brooke, Bage, …
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How Epistolary Novelists’ Literalizations of Moral Sense Philosophy Dramatize the Long-Eighteenth Century’s Gender Battles
… Richardson, Sarah Fielding, Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary Shelley literalized the dialectics of certain moral philosophers. This research asserts that the novelists adopted the structure of the three-stage moral dialectic found in moral sentiment theories and patterned their …
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"The aesthetic of lived life" from Wollstonecraft to Mill
… of the self in literature was initiated by Mary Wollstonecraft four years before these poets and inherited and expanded by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and John Stuart Mill in the Victorian period through their "literary self-portraits."These texts have often evaded the scrutiny of scholars …
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The ‘Woman-child’ in Fashion Photography, 1990-2015: Childlike Femininities, Performativity, and Reception Studies
… long been critiqued in feminist literature, from Mary Wollstonecraft (1792) to Susan Faludi (1992). Yet, despite the partial gains of feminism the ‘woman-child’ continues to be a prominent subject-position in fashion photography of the West. This thesis builds upon earlier feminist critiques of …
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A space for women? Space and place in women's novels, 1790 -1820.
… radical views, in particular, of women such as Mary Wollstonecraft, it was nevertheless partly redeemed by the approach of others who succeeded in being both radical and Christian at the same time.
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Unsex'd Women: The Politics of Transgression in the Poetry of Anna Laeticia Barbauld and Charlotte Smith.
… A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft. In placing Barbauld and Smith's poetry in the context of this turbulent and exciting moment of gendered political awareness, I offer a revisionist reading of their poetry, as not only highly politicised, but invested with an …
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Female Virtue In Gothic Literature 1780-1810
… (‘Virtue Abandoned: Desire in the Fiction of Mary Wollstonecraft and Charlotte Dacre’) looks at revolutionary fiction by two controversial female writers and how they present a breaking away from traditional sexual purity concepts. By examining a sample cross-section of Gothic literature …
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Alienation and Dwelling: The Pursuit of Happiness in Late Eighteenth-Century Literature
… four writers — James Boswell, Laurence Sterne, Mary Wollstonecraft, and William Wordsworth — respond to alienation in their respective works. All four of them might broadly be described as autobiographical writers and have been chosen because, in writing the self, they seek to think through the …
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